12 Quotes by Frank Sheed

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

It is of the very nature of partial seeing that we cannot see all the reconciliation of the parts we see, because it is only in the whole that they are one, and we do not see the whole. The word we form cannot wholly express God: only the Word He generates can do that. To be irked at this necessary darkness is as though we were irked at not being God.

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words “He is.” Let us begin.

A Mystery in short is an invitation to the mind. For it means that there is an inexhaustible well of Truth from which the mind may drink and drink again in the certainty that the well will never run dry, that there will always be water for the mind’s thirst.

Eternity is not time at all. It is God’s total possession of Himself.

Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world.

We cannot use anything intelligently until we know what it is for.

To overlook God’s presence is not simply to be irreligious: it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there.